Marco Rubio Threatens Maduro

Psychopathic US Senator Openly Calls For Maduro To Suffer Gaddafi’s Fate

Influential US Senator and 2016 presidential candidate Marco Rubio has tweeted a blatant death threat and incitement of violence against Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. As of this writing the post has 13 thousand shares and counting.

The tweet consists of a “before” and “after” photo of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who in 2011 was mutilated to death in the streets following a US-led NATO intervention in Libya which was launched on false humanitarian pretexts. The first photo depicts Gaddafi alive and confident with a smile on his face, the second depicts him covered in blood following his capture by a militia group minutes before his death.

Senator Rubio has been Capitol Hill’s single most virulent advocate of US interventionism in Venezuela, and has been tweeting about it constantly. Since Washington’s bogus “humanitarian aid” delivery sparked violence on the borders of Columbia and Brazil, as it was intended to, Rubio has cranked his interventionist cheerleading up to eleven. The fact that Maduro would not allow a government that is openly staging a coup in Venezuela to hand a large unchecked delivery over to opposition factions within that very nation has been used to sell a narrative that Venezuela’s Evil Dictator is deliberately cutting off aid to a needy populace, which was of course planned. This narrative has been helped along by highly suspicious photo-friendly fires, and has been injected into mainstream consciousness with hysterical urgency by the likes of Rubio, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and the entire Trump administration. And it is completely false.

Firstly, Maduro is not refusing humanitarian aid for his people. Only an idiot would believe that the latest Official Bad Guy (who coincidentally happens to be sitting on top of the largest oil reserves on earth) is intentionally starving and depriving his people, and anyone who makes such claims should have to explain how they make that work in their minds. What’s the idea behind that, exactly? Is he starving them all and cutting them off from medical supplies because he hates them? Is he trying to kill everyone in Venezuela so that he can have the entire country to himself? Does he have some strange sexual fetish for the slow starvation of an entire citizenry? How specifically does this work?

In reality, Maduro has been accepting aid from everywhere except from the government that is openly staging a coup in his country in gross violation of its national sovereignty. Just last week Caracas accepted 933 tons of food and medical supplies from China, Cuba, India and Turkey, and Russia has shipped in 300 tons of aid on its own

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Secondly, the paltry $20 million in food, medical and hygiene supplies sent via USAID pales in comparison to the $30 million per day the new US oil embargo will be costing Venezuelans this year. If the US wanted to help the Venezuelan people, the best thing it could do is end its crushing economic warfare upon them, which experts say has made economic recovery all but impossible. Believing the CIA/CNN narrative that US sanctions only impact a nation’s leadership is dumber than believing that US bombs only kill bad guys; former UN special rapporteur Alfred de Zayas has said that US-led sanctions are killing Venezuelans and could be tried under international law as crimes against humanity. The best way for the US to help Venezuelans would be to cease all interventionism and end its economic warfare upon them.

Tulsi called Marco out. Who else will?

Rubio took down the ones of Saddam when he was being hanged and it showed the noose around his neck and the next one was black hinting that Saddam was gone.

Oh look, here's who really started the truck fires. Are these people being paid by the US to start another color revolution or working with Guaido?

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As does Tracey

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Mollie

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Why not let the people of Venezuela sort it out for themselves....

Outside interference just makes everything worse, and quite why the US still thinks that South America is its 'backyard', is beyond me.

Also, too, I've read that Venezuela doesn't have the ability to refine it's own crude oil, and is dependent on exporting elsewhere. They might want to alter that (if true) when/if things sort themselves out.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

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@Bollox Ref

Mollie

“I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.”
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I posted this else where but it is worth repeating...
Abby explains h/t aspie... (38 excellent minutes)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii5MlQgGXyk]

Max goes shopping in Caracas. It is all about inflation, not supply.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbXqGiNlWWw (6 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlX3yfXNX_g (4 min)

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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https://twitter.com/iD4RO/status/1099718869902655489

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Don't know what's good for 'em.

A. Greek, Esq.

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Gëzuar!!
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I am responding to Abby Martin. Later as I read down the responses to her tweet, there were several others who did the same. This is the only time Caucus99% has ever reported a tweet.

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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

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Where was her concern when Iraqi children were being starved because of her husband's sanctions? And where is her concern for the children of Yemen? This goes for every person in congress who is saying things like this. Bunch of f'cking hypocrites.

It's the tweet below that I wanted to post first, but...

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We Came, We saw, He died - cackle video

The video can only be played on YouTube. After Hillary cracks herself up the lady asked her if it had anything to do with her visit? "I'm sure it did."

Oh My F'ck Gawd! This is where she should have been disqualified to run for president.

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Imagine if Russia had done this...

Let's take a look at what Obama's national emergency was shall we? He signed an executive order stating that the national emergency was Venezuela.

Obama’s national emergency is relevant to the present moment for a number of reasons. First off: his definition of a national emergency is the same as Trump’s. Mr. Obama did not see the climate apocalypse—which is destroying every piece of life on earth as a national emergency. He like Trump, saw much more danger in working class Latinas and Latinos putting food on the table. Secondly, Barack Obama’s declaration of a national emergency was in regards to a very hot topic in our political climate: the socialist government of Venezuela. And like all presidents past he served the interests of the oligarchs.
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Barack Obama wrote this: “Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order (the “order”) declaring a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in Venezuela.” Obama sounds literally insane in this statement. While Donald Trump’s mental illness is clear and should be pointed out—Obama demonstrates that he was completely brainwashed by the mythos of U.S. Empire.

This is not to say that the government is free of corruption, but when one compares Venezuela with other countries in the region—it stands out, until recently, as a near miracle. These gains were achieved by the state owning the economy, a government opposing imperialism, and a resistance to free-market austerity measures by international capital via the IMF, World Bank, etc. If Venezuela is to fall to right-wing U.S. puppets, expect the fate of their country to be similar to the rest of Latin America. How devastating it is that no one in the U.S. with political power wants to stop this from happening.

But why be so paranoid, Mr. Obama? Surely a single government free of U.S. rule isn’t a grave danger to the Empire you serve? Perhaps not. But a whole generation of free educated people in Latin America may be. The U.S. knows its power is dwindling, the dollar is declining, and that even its own people are uneasy. By making Venezuela a national emergency—and increasing sanctions on the region—Mr. Obama wanted to ensure that there would be no group of prosperous Latin Americans. This group would indeed pose a national emergency to the United States. Not to its people, but to its Empire. Mr. Obama then was not wrong in declaring Venezuela a national emergency. They were an emergency not to his people, or to Maduro’s people, but to the corporate master class Obama serves.

Obama and Trump work together to hold up the interests of the ruling class, but we must identify differences in who they are supposed to trick on their way to the same goal. Barack Obama is supposed to trick well-meaning educated people and social groups historically and presently marginalized by the corporate duopoly. When he declared a national emergency against Venezuela, it was with these “values” in mind. Obama provides no facts to back up his claims about Venezuela’s dictatorship, but he does not need to. Obama simply gains credibility by his character, which is thoughtful, snobbish, enlightened, and therefore benevolently wise, even when speaking out of his ass.

Im amazed that so many people voted for Barry in 2012 after he had put social security on the chopping block, had expanded the war of terror into Pakistan and other countries with his murderous drone program, had met with fellow sociopaths every Tuesday to decide who was next to be murdered by drones and had invaded Libya on false pretenses. Wasn't those things the very reason why people didn't vote for Hillary in the first place? And now that he's off getting rewarded for keeping the bankers out of prison people are whining about missing him. Why? Because Clump is doing the same things that he did? Nope. Because Clump beat Hillary after she worked so hard to cheat to win the primary.

Clump -- cute huh? ClintonTrump...Clump.

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Asking for a friend.

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Liz stood silently by when people were being brutally attacked by police during OWS, the BLM protests, during the DAPL protests and while Israel was in the process of killing 2,200 Palestinians as well as the entire time Obama was waging war on the Middle East.

Sure she is cranky when she talks about the banks, but has anything come from it? Has one bill been passed that reigns them in? Bueller?

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@snoopydawg snoop is the point after all - nothing will ever pass to reign in Wall Street and its killing machine and SHE KNOWS THAT. Just as Bernie knows good and damned well we don't get to Medicare for All while the wars continue to rage. These bastards know it and they are once again merely pandering - we need to go after Maduro but no regime change using our military Liz? Then just HOW do you propose to "get rid" of him without that? Further sanctions? And then what? And really, just whose bidding are you really doing by saying "we" need to do something in VZ, would it perhaps be those sworn enemies of yours on Wall Street who gain by overthrowing that "dictator?" She makes me want to vomit.

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Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur

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@lizzyh7

I'm seeing people saying that Bernie doesn't need to run because Liz covers pretty much the same things he does. Utter BS. Liz stopped being a republican because they went insane and the democrats stepped into their shoes and became the real republicans so she didn't really have to change very much. Has she talked about anything besides the banks?

Yep on how Madura is going to be forced out if the military doesn't make him. The people who are saying that people in Venezuela are starving know damn well that our sanctions are causing lots of the problems and today Clump just put more sanctions on them. Let's talk about this, Warren!

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Marco Rubio

Follower of Christ,Husband,Father,US Senator for Florida, #GatorNation & #FinsUp. Official tweets
@SenRubioPress & Campaign tweets

I don't know who this is? It's making the rounds.

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@snoopydawg
In December 1989 Ceausescu and his wife fled Bucharest after street protests against his communist regime.

They were arrested a few hours later before being summarily tried and executed at an army base near the town of Targoviste on Christmas Day that year.

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"If I sit silently, I have sinned." - Mossadegh

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@jorogo

So that was another obvious threat from Rubio? Did I post a tweet saying that the democrats freaked out about Omar's AIPAC thing, but have no problem with a senator threatening another country's leader? Puts things in perspective doesn't it?

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@snoopydawg either. This F*cking Bastard is one of my two Senators with the odious Rick Scott being the other. Florida cannot catch a break. I used to think that Rubio was simply a clueless clown but now I see a sociopath based upon his tweets.

I believe that Rubio's posts are in violation of Twitter rules. Users have been suspended or deleted for far less.

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Further the Twitter rules are more specific when it comes to violence or threats of physical harm. I do not read where threats toward a public official are exempt from this clause.

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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

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@gulfgal98

He either removed the Saddam tweet or Twitter did it for him. But someone else posted it and it's still up. I'd say the 3 tweets he posted is a direct threat against Madura. "Do it our way or you are toast."

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This video shows how far from the border the trucks were when they got fire bombed. The video of the Molotov cocktail is in my main thread in case you missed it.

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This may be the worst kind of meddling from Russia yet. When will Putin finally mind his own nation's business? The United Nations should censure Russia. Kick it right out of the Security Council. Finally stand up to all nations that meddle in the in the internal affairs of other nations, which violates the law of nations, as well as treaties.

Rubio? Not Russia?


never mind.

Why is Saudi Arabia the only oil-producing nation that behaves itself? Very soon, we'll hear about something even worse, if that's possible, that Maduro did to us or to Venezuelans. Because we have to have had some reason for acting as we are. Self defense or humanitarian action.

Other than those measly two casus belli, we just mind our own business, and ensure that our conduct to individuals and nations is above reproach. It's what we do because it's who we are.℠

Pod bless the USA.

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the poor.

Just as he promised the Washington Post shortly before his first inauguration.

The first budget he sent to congress cut fuel subsidies. He set up the Cat Food Commission just before Obamacare was finished. He signed one cut to SNAP after another into law.

He set up the Grand Bargain Committee, defaulting to the Sequester.

And he offered Social Security and Medicare to Cantor and Boehner.

http://www.crewof42.com/news/conyers-on-jobs-weve-had-it-lays-out-obama-...

If we need to thank Lewinsky for saving Social Security, as some political writers claimed, do we also need to thank Republicans for vowing not to cooperate with him on a single thing, no matter what?

But, out of office, he's all for Medicare for All, I hear. Red flag (no pun intended)?

Big Al is right: We need to be saying "single payer." "Medicare for All" is too vague. They can pass amendments to Obamacare and call it Medicare for All. Remember, these clowns weren't embarrassed to call a law that violated rights of Americans, even according to a Republican SCOTUS, "the Patriot Act."

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The brutal kurder of the gangster Rubio.

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national emergency and sanctioning Venezuela. Oh wait..
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-declares-venezuela-national-security-th...
The Dems make me want to puke.

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